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Culinary training, restaurant on MasterChef India 4 winner's mind
Culinary training, restaurant on MasterChef India 4 winner\'s mind.She majored in finance from a US university after confusion about whether she should pursue her passion for cooking or choose a \"safer\" career.
She majored in finance from a US university after confusion about whether she should pursue her passion for cooking or choose a "safer" career. But after winning MasterChef India 4, Abu Dhabi-based NRI Nikita Gandhi is clear that she wants to head to a culinary school and eventually, open her own restaurant.
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All of 21, Gandhi was crowned India’s top vegetarian chef in the cooking-based reality TV show, which concluded on Sunday.She says she was born with a passion for cooking. "When others' kids would be watching cartoons at around a certain age, I would be with my mom in the kitchen watching her cook...I actually started cooking independently at the age of eight," she recounted.
Gandhi always harboured a desire to go to a culinary school and always wanted to make cooking her career."But when I came to college I was in a confused state where I was like 'I don't know if I want to go to a culinary school or I want to study business' and with all that confusion, I ended up taking up a safer option that was business, finance,” Gandhi said.
The young chef, who was born and raised in Abu Dhabi, feared losing interest in the culinary world after joining a business school, but once she graduated from college, she realised she was still interested in cooking. That's when Masterchef India 4 sprang up."I thought it was the best platform to change my career instantly," said Gandhi, who has taken home a whopping Rs 1 crore as winner of the Star Plus show.She says she will use part of the amount for her fee at a culinary school.
"Going to a culinary school and getting professional and disciplined training has always been been my wish. I'll be more than happy to invest money from this Rs 1 crore into my education myself rather than having my father pay for it," she said.Her future plan is to "definitely open a restaurant someday in the future", but would like to make her foundations a little stronger in this field by joining a culinary school before she goes ahead with the restaurant.
"I would definitely like to open a restaurant someday in the future, but before that I feel I still have a lot to learn. I learnt a lot in 'MasterChef', but I think learning never ends. "Age is in my favour and I have a lot of time, which I want to use in learning and building a stronger foundation before I could go ahead and open my own restaurant or do anything related to this on my own," Gandhi said.
By Durga Chakravarty
